Sarah Meister, Richard Misrach, and Xin Wang

Pace Live

CARGO

A Conversation with Richard Misrach and Sarah Meister, Moderated by Xin Wang

Wednesday, Feb 26
6:30 – 8 PM EST
540 West 25th Street
New York

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CARGO: A Conversation with Richard Misrach and Sarah Meister, Moderated by Xin Wang
Wednesday, Feb 26
6:30 – 8 PM EST
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Pace Live is pleased to present a conversation between photographer Richard Misrach and Sarah Meister, Executive Director of Aperture, on the occasion of Misrach’s latest exhibition, CARGO, at Pace’s New York gallery.

For his CARGO series, which he began creating in 2021 amid the pandemic and its attendant lockdowns, Misrach turns his lens to the San Francisco Bay, capturing the towering cargo ships that traverse its waters. His radiant, large-scale photographs in this body of work meditate on the beauty of the bay and also the environmental implications of international commerce. Captured at different times of day from a single location in San Francisco, these images speak to Misrach’s enduring interest in bearing witness to the world around him from a singular vantage point over the course of months or years.

In their conversation—moderated by Pace’s Curatorial Director Xin Wang—Misrach and Meister will discuss CARGO, the artist’s process, and more. Aperture’s new monograph on the artist’s CARGO series, Richard Misrach: Cargo, will be released in May.

Sarah Meister

Since 2021 Sarah Meister has been Executive Director of Aperture, following twenty-five years at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is currently curating an exhibition of Carrie Mae Weems’s work that will open in April at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, accompanied by a major catalogue in English published by Aperture. At MoMA Sarah organized numerous acclaimed exhibitions and publications, offering new approaches to beloved figures from photography’s history including Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and more. She played a central role in expanding the Museum Collection and led several transformative educational initiatives, including the online course “Seeing Through Photographs”.

Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach is considered one of the most influential photographers of his generation, instrumental in pioneering the use of color photography and large-scale format in the 1970s. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971 with a BA in Psychology.

For over 50 years, Misrach has photographed the dynamic landscape of the American West through an environmentally aware and politically astute lens. His visually seductive, large-scale color vistas powerfully document the devastating ecological effects of human intervention, industrial development, nuclear testing and petrochemical pollution on the natural world.

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Xin Wang

Xin Wang is a New York-based art historian and Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery. Currently finishing a PhD dissertation on Soviet Hauntology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, she held curatorial and educational positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and received the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant in 2021. Publications such as “Asian Futurism and the Non-Other” have been widely circulated, translated and taught in university curriculums. An appointed faculty at Yale University’s MFA program in Photography since 2021, she served as the curator of the 4th art and technology themed biennial program—titled “To Your Eternity”—at Beijing’s Today Art Museum in fall 2023. Her upcoming publications include “Machine Envy” in the book Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Urbanomic and NYU Shanghai), and “Dance as Socialist World-Building” in Afterall Journal (issue 57).